The 48 Laws of Power
In 1996, a frustrated screenwriter got a fellowship in Italy. Twenty years later, Beyoncé released "Lemonade."
Content warning: This episode includes a mention of suicide.
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- Rebecca Solnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell”
- Kelly Link's "White Cat, Black Dog"
- The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”
- A Book of Anecdotes, 1957
The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes - Fear Nothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law
- The fear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations
- The Immigration Dilemma
- You Can Win But I Can't Lose
- If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
- Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides
- A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset
- Forbes Winslow’s Physic and Physicians
- The role of masculinity in men's help-seeking for depression: A systematic review
- The Strange, Sad Story of Joe Orton, His Lover, and 72 Stolen Library Books
- A Failure Of Initiative
- New Orleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina
- Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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